Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is an incredibly bizarre take for VPNs.
// VPNs occupy a similar role in society to guns.
Excuse me? VPNs are not guns. Are you out of your mind?
// They cause many significant harms and have no clear benefit.
Except VPNs do not kill people. They help you secure your connection in the network and make them private through virtualization. That's why they call them VPN (Virtual Private Network). How you compare them to guns is completely beyond me.
Do you know why I use VPN? The Indonesian government censors everything online. So, I bypass their censorship with VPN, and coincidentally, Mullvad, the VPN being shown on the image, is the VPN that I use for just €5 a month. Their ad asking whether United Kingdom will be another country that bans VPN services is quite poignant and relevant with current issues.
// Their legality is mysteriously correlated with places you want to live.
They are also correlated with massive government overreach and their attempts on controlling every little aspect of our lives, including the violation of privacy.
// I mean VPNs as used for hiding your IP address, not the ones used for legitimate security purposes. The former is, at this point, probably the vast majority.
They are also used to bypass censorship from the governments that were literally shown on the Mullvad ad, including North Korea. I wonder why VPNs are banned there. Maybe it has something to do with their totalitarian government wanting to restrict people's freedom and contain the spread of information. Maybe people don't want UK to make the same mistake, but considering the state of the UK government now, I won't hold my breath.
This is an incredibly bizarre take for VPNs.
// VPNs occupy a similar role in society to guns.
Excuse me? VPNs are not guns. Are you out of your mind?
// They cause many significant harms and have no clear benefit.
Except VPNs do not kill people. They help you secure your connection in the network and make them private through virtualization. That's why they call them VPN (Virtual Private Network). How you compare them to guns is completely beyond me.
Do you know why I use VPN? The Indonesian government censors everything online. So, I bypass their censorship with VPN, and coincidentally, Mullvad, the VPN being shown on the image, is the VPN that I use for just €5 a month. Their ad asking whether United Kingdom will be another country that bans VPN services is quite poignant and relevant with current issues.
// Their legality is mysteriously correlated with places you want to live.
They are also correlated with massive government overreach and their attempts on controlling every little aspect of our lives, including the violation of privacy.
// I mean VPNs as used for hiding your IP address, not the ones used for legitimate security purposes. The former is, at this point, probably the vast majority.
They are also used to bypass censorship from the governments that were literally shown on the Mullvad ad, including North Korea. I wonder why VPNs are banned there. Maybe it has something to do with their totalitarian government wanting to restrict people's freedom and contain the spread of information. Maybe people don't want UK to make the same mistake, but considering the state of the UK government now, I won't hold my breath.
